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In the first part of a "City of Bane" interlude, Batman receives help from an ally he thought he had lost for good: Catwoman! Still recovering from the beatings he took from Bane and Flashpoint Batman, the Dark Knight readies himself for a return to Gotham City, and it's Selina Kyle who holds the key. She knows how Bane is fueling his regime, and s...

Short review: TRASH, TRASH, TRASH. A SHAME for the great art being wasted.

Long review:

This story gets worse& worse. King really wants to make us believe, that Bruce would go shopping with Catwoman in Paris, while his city& family are in great danger? Wounded or not, I can’t see Bruce not trying to make contact with the batfamily or with the JL& waste precious time like this.

I would like the scene with Damien telling Thomas, that he isn’t his real grandfather, if it was logical. While it was stated, that some New52/Rebirth characters remember Pre52 I‘m asking myself from where do they know, that Martha became Joker in Flashpoint? That was stated nowhere.

I also would like Damien more, if he wasn’t responsible for Scarecrow getting wounded. So this is another example for King wasting the villains& having no clue about their characters. So I really hope, that Scarecrow is alright. Since he’s one of my favorite characters it hurts seeing him in an awful story like this.

The Catwoman/ Batman story is so forced it’s basically mere fanfiction.

The dialogue is just awful& embarrassing considering the fact, that an adult wrote it.

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As for the ending & Alfred getting killed I don’t buy it yet, but if it’s true, it’s one of the dumbest stories ever written by DC. And I wouldn’t be surprised, if Bruce was more upset about Catwoman breaking up with him than Alfred getting killed. That’s how badly King is writing these characters after all.

SPOILER ENDING

So overall, if you hate every DC character, love characters being killed& hurt for nothing & characters being wasted& reduced to canon fodder, then you will love King‘s Batman run. more

"City of Bane" continues! The last of the independent villains are on the run, leaving Gotham City entirely to Bane and his cronies-including Flashpoint Batman and Gotham Girl! Though this means a semblance of peace on the streets, the iron grip of tyranny is squeezing all life out of Gotham. And with Bane's machinations keeping other heroes out, t...

do you ever notice the people giving low score reviews about tom king comics are pretty concise about what they didn't like. ....and on the flip side people that give the high scores give the most vapid reviews ever.

Yeah, I rarely see high score reviews pointing out what is great about his run. King went from mediocre to awful for me. And I actually had some hopes for City of Bane. Villains taking over Gotham normally makes a great story.

eh. the Villains taking over trope has been done so many times over, and by far more competent writers. all tome king ever does is rehash other writers ideas, but very poorly executed. there's better fan fiction out there than what this bozo is churning out.

"City of Bane" continues! The last of the independent villains are on the run, leaving Gotham City entirely to Bane and his cronies-including Flashpoint Batman and Gotham Girl! Though this means a semblance of peace on the streets, the iron grip of tyranny is squeezing all life out of Gotham. And with Bane's machinations keeping other heroes out, t...

I didn’t like this issue& I can’t understand how people can rate it 7 or better. Even the biggest Tom King fan can’t ignore the big plotholes:

Two issues ago Bruce was fighting with a broken back in the desert.

Last issue he was walking around in the Himalayas ( or wherever)& met Catwoman ( even so last time we saw her, she was in a city in the US.

This issue he’s in Paris with Catwoman—- how does this make any sense?

Things are getting even more ridiculous in Gotham. King lets Gotham Girl beat Captain Atom with one punch. This only shows, that King doesn’t have a clue about who the characters are he is writing. Did he ever read a comic with Captain Atom? I don’t think so.

It doesn’t become any better with how King treats the villains. Scarecrow was on Bane’s side during the Knightmare arc, he showed up in a pic, that showed the villains, who are against Batman some issues ago& now he is suddenly against Bane? I mean I sure can’t blame him. Who would want to be part of an inconsistent story like that? I also can’t see, why Scarecrow would hang out with D villains like Kiteman or the Tweedldedum cousins or why he would need their help? King doesnt seem to know anything about Scarecrow except, that his signature weapon is the fear gas. Scarecrow talks very weird in this issue, if he talks at all. The only good thing here is the art& Scarecrow‘s outfit.
It’s also more than boring, that Scarecrow ( don’t expect much of the other two) is only canon fodder for Flashpoint Batman. King sure wants to show what big threat Bane& Thomas are, but that’s just lazy& bad writing. A good writer never wastes the villains and make them look weak. It’s not only ruining their characters, it’s also boring as hell for the reader.

The dialogue also is awfully badly written. Is King not capable of writing at least one decent english sentence? I’m really sick of characters talking as if they were braindead idiots.

So overall the only good thing is the art, but everything else just awful.
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"City of Bane" continues! Bane has taken over Gotham City, and Batman is nowhere to be found. At least, not a Batman anyone recognizes. Flashpoint Batman is now patrolling the city, dispensing a violent brand of justice and taking out rogue villains who haven't yet signed on with Bane. It's all building to a rebellion among the bad guys who don't w...

Issue 74 : batman gets beaten because of his broken back and escape from the pit not knowing what to do
Issue 75 : still broken he tries to find the help of someone in the mountains and get rescued by cat
Issue 76 : moved in paris, bruce is healing
Where is the plothole ?
It is as easy finding an explanation as saying this doesn't make sense

hahahaha! no. next issue with be Bruce eating thirty pounds of chili with extra hot peppers. ...issue 78 will just be filled with 9 panel grid pages of Bruce sitting on the toilet. the comic will end with a double page splash of Bruce flushing the toilet. X"D

Nah your both wrong. Next issue has Selina teaching him pole dancing and issue 78 has Bruce revealing he's secretly been a cross dress named Fluffy Tutu since way back when Bane broke him the first time.

It's impressive how many parallel points of view Tom King manages to squeeze in just one issue, and make them all so bland and pointless at the same time. I'd love to see the story from Kite Man and Scarecrow's angle, I'd love to see more Gotham Girl, and Robins as well, since they were criminally underused in this run. But at the same time, I can't stop thinking, there's something big missing in this comic - call it "heart", call it "plot", doesn't matter, but despite having all these different POVs, none of them feels captivating and tense. Yeah, even chase and fight scenes.
The art is beautiful, though.more

"City of Bane" continues! Bane has taken over Gotham City, and Batman is nowhere to be found. At least, not a Batman anyone recognizes. Flashpoint Batman is now patrolling the city, dispensing a violent brand of justice and taking out rogue villains who haven't yet signed on with Bane. It's all building to a rebellion among the bad guys who don't w...

City of Bane continues to introduce us to the New Gotham City. King's still writing so there the same qualities and problems than the last 75 issue. I really enjoyed the issue, the stakes keep getting higher. The Batman chasing vilain was cool and it is nice to see Kite Man again. Hoping to see more of him in the next issue.

"City of Bane" continues! Bane has taken over Gotham City, and Batman is nowhere to be found. At least, not a Batman anyone recognizes. Flashpoint Batman is now patrolling the city, dispensing a violent brand of justice and taking out rogue villains who haven't yet signed on with Bane. It's all building to a rebellion among the bad guys who don't w...

"City of Bane" continues! Bane has taken over Gotham City, and Batman is nowhere to be found. At least, not a Batman anyone recognizes. Flashpoint Batman is now patrolling the city, dispensing a violent brand of justice and taking out rogue villains who haven't yet signed on with Bane. It's all building to a rebellion among the bad guys who don't w...

to tell you the truth, i don't think he ever cared. but now that he knows that he was fired before his 100th, he cares even LESS. .....it's hard to imagine a level even lower that the lack of caring that he had when he first started this awful run.

comics have been on the decline for years, but there was a core audience keeping it going. unfortunately both Marvel and now DC have chosen to turn their backs on and alienate their longtime fans. they've divided their fanbase.

DC want to explore their market to save the declining sale of current issues I guess. But it won't work, I bet u my life. Few people in China like this writer and they prefer SS, TT and Tomasi better. They hate this writer so much that they call themselvesTK PTSD or Batcat PTSD LOL.

I read the article myconius. To me, it doesn't seem that DC is in trouble i.e. facing extinction/doom/bankruptcy/etc. Just the "Big Boss" in charge has some other ideas. Sad, sure. But it doesn't mean an end to Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the others.
And just for clarification, when say "Big Boss" I don't mean Snake.

AH! if Snake was in charge, they'd be number 1 in the industry!!! ..no. i definitely don't think DC will be closing up shop any time soon. but this tightening of the belt does have me worried. laying off Mark Chiarello was a major loss. and i really feel that taking away Swamp Thing, Hellblazer and Animal Man away from Vertigo with the new52 was a huge mistake. i just hope they don't end print and phase into digital. as much as i may complain about clutter, i love my books and comics.

As the universe tilts towards doom, great forces awake in an effort to stop Lex Luthor's mad plans. Dispatching Sinestro, Luthor sends the former Green Lantern to bring these old gods under control or destroy them before they reach Earth. Now, wielding the power of the ultraviolet spectrum, Sinestro finds his new foes even more dangerous and perple...

As the universe tilts towards doom, great forces awake in an effort to stop Lex Luthor's mad plans. Dispatching Sinestro, Luthor sends the former Green Lantern to bring these old gods under control or destroy them before they reach Earth. Now, wielding the power of the ultraviolet spectrum, Sinestro finds his new foes even more dangerous and perple...

It's the final showdown between Batman and the Batman Who Laughs... but how do you defeat a foe who knows your every instinct and every move? Bruce Wayne will have to outsmart Bruce Wayne in this ultimate test of good versus evil. You can't miss this finale to the epic miniseries that will tear up the very foundations of Gotham City!

the point is, it seems stupid to give a rating to a book you likely didnt even read, and just dislike its concept. and if ypu did read a 7 part mini series why are you complainibg about them putting out 7 issues?

I have read the series and have been hoping that something would change my mind about it, because I am a Batman/Batman Universe fan and have been for most of my life. I gave my opinion on the issue and the series, which is what this page is supposed to be for. Sorry if it offends some of the fanboys who can't understand that.

No, you maroon, you didn't give your opinion on the issue. It's a 7 ISSUE MINI-SERIES titled "The Batman Who Laughs" and your "opinion" , as far as I can make sense of it, is either that they shouldn't have put out a 7th issue, or it should be about something other than the "Batman Who Laughs." An OPINION would actually say something about the merits, or lack of, of the book itself.

You'd all sooner believe that he must not have read it, rather than he just didn't like it. Which is just brilliant deduction. And this isn't at all it for the Batman Who Laughs. Batman/Superman is yet another series about him. He's not going anywhere.

All this comes down to is superstan being upset someone didn't like what he liked and using the oh-so-classic argument of "don't read it," which is really stupid. When KFuqua gave that more attention than it deserved, superstan switched to the argument that he definitely didn't read it. And then gave some bullshit rules for how opinions work? And then everyone else piled on like superstan signaled the rest of the Borg because, I don't know, how dare KFuqua dislike this comic. This is all stupid.

Batman/Superman isn't the same writer, which goes back to him just not liking Batman Who Laughs, which makes the suggestion of not reading it kind of valid.
I would be a hypocrite to suggest he doesn't read it though. I somehow read every issue of Neal Adams' Deadman.
Dropping books you dislike is great though, I have been doing it lately. I used to read everything, I tried my best, but then I realized I was just making my life hell.

Actually, Your Greeness, this has nothing to b.v do with me liking TBWL, and I'm fine with someone not liking the book. What bbn got me going is KFuqua's "review" is nothing but him venting that a series called The Batman Who Laughs exists. Or continues. Then Dont Read It! Lord knows theres enough other books out there. It would be like someone scoring every Spider Man comic "zero" since One More Day because he wants Peter and MJ to still be married. Kfuqua adds nothing to anyones insight.

An all-new standalone epilogue to the classic MARVELS graphic novel written by Kurt Busiek and fully-painted by Alex Ross! A "Marvels" look at the "all-new, all-different" X-Men of the 1970s. In this 16-page story, Alex and Kurt bring Marvel's world to brilliant, realistic life one last time, as the now-retired Phil Sheldon and his daughters, in Ma...

In this explosive sequel to the critically acclaimed blockbuster BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT from writer/artist Sean Murphy, The Joker recruits Azrael to help him expose a shocking secret from the Wayne family's legacy-and to run Gotham City into the ground! As Batman rushes to protect the city and his loved ones from danger, the mystery of his ancestry u...

Century Hollow--a secret project in the American heartland--is an artificial town created and maintained as a very unusual experiment. A bizarre terrorist group seizes control of the project, and only The Guardian has any chance of saving the people. The only question is: should he?

This JL issue finally puts some meat on the bones of this Year of the Villain concept, at least from Lex Luthor's perspective. That in and of itself is appreciated.

James Tynion's writing is so terribly overwrought. He could use half the words and get at least as much meaning out of the book. But his problem isn't unique; most writers should confine themselves to a study hall with a few trade paperbacks from the pre-Alan Moore days and see how comic writing was done. Simpler, yes, but at least as effective. That's not to say that Moore was a bad writer, not in the least. He is a fantastic writer, but he is unique with his skillsets. Most writers simply can't do comics like he does (or, I guess, did).

But, and this is important, great stories can be told without mimicking Swamp Thing, Miracleman or Watchmen. JL COULD be a great story, but it crumbles under its own weight.
The artwork is substandard. Character work is inconsistent. Overuse of shadowing (presumably for gravitas) renders some characters unrecognizable. Shading is middling to poor. Special mention needs to be bad of Hawkwoman's neck on page 1 and Green Lantern's face on page 7. The crosshatching is simply awful and entirely inconsistent with the balance of the book.
Coloring is adequate. It does not enhance the book, however.

That's the technical side. On the story side, I find the Shayne/Starman element interesting. And that's about it for this issue.

The diminishing of the Monitor and the world forging character to walking companions with the JL wastes so much promise and power of the characters. They are NOT just narrators of the universe's story. They are creators and overseers of the universes that they and their ilk create and destroy! The JL members should be quaking in their shoes when those two talk, and instead they just take it all in stride. Sorry, Flash...even Superman, you don't match up to those two. Period. Shame on Tynion for equating them.

Then there's the core Year of the Villain matter of Lex Luthor. His usage had to be the result of some awful conference room discussion, for I cannot for the life of me understand why a uniquely powerful titan of business would be transformed into...whatever he's become. Truthfully, his character looks and reads like a variant on Ras Al Ghul. So now we have two Ras characters and no Luthor. How is the DC Universe enhanced? And what will become of Luthor once this arc inevitably ends with his failure? Will DC have another comparable character to lift up as a projector of financial power to our heroes' super-powers? They'd best get started on this.

I will admit to not being a fan of the Year of the Villain 25 cent book, nor the awkward interludes that are showing up in so many books. The whole storyline comes off as a panic move by DC to try to impose cross-selling on its creatively chaotic line of titles. (Never mind that it had another cross-character book running at the same time in Event Leviathan...but that's another matter altogether.) But I now have a better idea where the storyline is going after having read this issue, and that's a good thing.

I now believe that the story could be a good one, but it has a number of significant structural flaws to overcome. And I see nothing in Justice League #28 to suggest that this creative team has the chops to fix it.more

The Apex Predator rises! Justice-Doom War is coming! This is the culmination of the Legion of Doom's master plan, and they will take the Justice League to far-out places they may never return from...and do things the DC Universe may never recover from.

The Apex Predator rises! Justice-Doom War is coming! This is the culmination of the Legion of Doom's master plan, and they will take the Justice League to far-out places they may never return from...and do things the DC Universe may never recover from.

Oh brother. King's Gotham is just silly. It's up is down wrong is right, evil is good. And that's just silly. We learn that Thomas Wayne is Batman and uses Gotham Girl to enforce things. Hugo Strange is the commissioner and Joker and Riddler are cops. Psycho Pirate "cures" the insane and we see him do that with Two-Face.

Meanwhile we see a traveler walk in the snowy mountains being getting narration RIPPED OFF from the Tom Hanks movie "Charlie Wilson's War." It's a mess. We still get King's pet love of Batman insisting He and Selina met on a boat, and Selina saying they met on the streets.

Does Thomas Wayne have the ability to separate Gotham from the rest of the Justice League. In the old days when kids would stay off my lawn, team-ups were a thing, but each DC title was really its own little world. And that worked because of the social contract between writers and readers.

Sure Superman or Flash could solve all of Batman's problems by helping capture villain of the week. But the book is a Batman one, so we assume Superman or the Flash are off in their books doing their thing and don't thing too hard about how it really would be logical for Batman to call for Super help all the time.

But in this new much more interconnected world of comics, all the other DC heroes are going to ignore the fact that Gotham is being run by villains who have multiple murders on their rap sheets. I don't care if Psycho Pirate made them sane, that's just a bridge too far.

Also having the Joker be "curable" by Psycho Pirate really diminishes the Joker. He is mysterious and unknowable. Having him have an actual mental illness is just . . . degrading to the character.

And stop having Bane boast about how he broke the Bat and there's no way the Bat will come back, yep the Bat is broken and I am putting my fingers in my ears and shouting LAH, LAH, LAH I can't hear yo.

The breaking of the Bat with Bane has already been done. You can buy the trades in your local book store. It's not like this arc has been forgotten. King you are just walking on ground that's been well tread on.

What bothers me is that King really does think this is original great stuff. He's ripping off previous arcs and Charlie Wilson's War and he thinks he's the greatest thing since Stan Lee.

Meanwhile things like actual plot, actual pacing and actual characterization suffer. The villains are cardboard, the secondary players are ignored and the romance between Bruce and Selina is told and not shown. AARRGGHH.

"City of Bane" begins! Bane's minions have moved into Gotham City, taken control and are ruling with an iron fist-including rounding up any villain who refuses to sign onto Bane's program-and Batman is nowhere to be found. At least not the Batman anyone knows. It's like someone has replaced the real Gotham City with a twisted funhouse-mirror versio...

nothing was properly set up. we are just thrust into Gotham being run by villains with Flashpoint Batman in charge of Wayne Manor and the Bat-cave.

meanwhile Bruce is marching out in a snow blizzard in some undefined mountains. where? why? who knows? Bruce is asking for someone called 'The Memory of the Mountain', but gets his throat slashed and his head bashed with a crowbar by two nobody punks. then all the sudden Catwoman is there, just because.

Bane gives a speech about how the Justice League won't come in and stop his havoc on Gotham because he'll threaten innocents. yeah. i totally buy that . . . . NOT! and the reason Bane even wants Gotham? who knows?

this is just beyond pretentious and dumb.

at least the Tony Daniel portion of art was nice, and we no longer have to worry about this going on till issue 100. hopefully DC will renumber this series after #85. just start fresh.more

"City of Bane" begins! Bane's minions have moved into Gotham City, taken control and are ruling with an iron fist-including rounding up any villain who refuses to sign onto Bane's program-and Batman is nowhere to be found. At least not the Batman anyone knows. It's like someone has replaced the real Gotham City with a twisted funhouse-mirror versio...

The Scrambler has given the world one month to fix everything-or else suffer "The Great Scramble," a dastardly plot that would swap the consciousnesses of everyone on the planet. As the scramble before the scramble commences, the Wonder Twins must team up with the Justice League to put a stop to the Scrambler's plan! But an unexpected twist puts Ja...

AHOY is proud to present-for the first time anywhere-the series everyone's talking about, by award-winning writer Mark Russell (Snagglepuss, The Flintstones) and artist Richard Pace (Pitt, New Warriors)! God commands Earth's mightiest super-hero, Sunstar, to accept Jesus as his roommate and teach him how to use power in ...

They're back and more alive than ever for this special one-shot! But what new threat is so grave that only the most famous mutant celebrities can fight it? And who is the new U-Go-Girl? Only the original X-Statix creative team Peter Milligan, Michael Allred and Laura Allred know for sure! Parental Advisory

Another day with a Batman release, another day with claims that King is the worst writer we've ever seen. So who is in the wrong ? The fans who can't see the flaws and incoherence of King or the haters who are not able to see past the name on the cover ? Don't know. Dont really care.

Personnaly, i think that this was a good issue. I love the way Thomas Wayne is characterize : he really is mad and Bruce quickly realize it. His motivations are clear and not incoherent with wath we know of the character.
There is also the return of the pit tale from issue 57 that is used to explain the relation between Bruce and his father. Typical King writing and i thought it was great to see it use again even if it wasn't necessary to have all of it retold.
Again, not a lot of things happen, like last issue we almost only see the conversation between the two dark nights and yes it is a little frustating to not see the story move at the pace we want.
Like always Janin and Belaire are a great combo and the art is really good with beautif slash pages.
To conclude, the issue was interesting and beautiful and i think next issue will have more story progression with the debut of the City of Bane arc for wich i'm hyped. The cliffhanger was kind of cool but not that incredible. more

"The Fall and the Fallen" concludes with a father-and-son showdown. Flashpoint Batman reveals his fiendish reasoning for dragging Batman into the desert, and who is in the coffin they've been dragging along with them. But is this a step too far? It's Bruce Wayne versus Thomas Wayne for the right to wear the cowl, and all of Gotham City hangs in the...

"The Fall and the Fallen" part four! Batman has been defeated by Bane's minions and chased out of Gotham. As a last-ditch effort to save his son from the lonely fate of being Batman, his father from another universe, Thomas Wayne, a.k.a. the Flashpoint Batman, is taking Bruce to the far ends of the Earth to try to give him the one thing that will c...

ok. this was absolutely terrible!
Tom King is an awful no-talent Hack. still we get no real answers as to-
-how did Flashpoint Batman survive in the first place?
-how did Flashpoint Batman get to Bruce's dimension?
-why did Flashpoint Batman help Bane against Bruce?
-why is Bane dumb enough to trust Flashpoint Batman?
-how is Bruce not a cripple, with all the times his back has been broken?
-how is Bane not a cripple? wasn't his back broken by Catwoman?
all King has done is just brought up even more unresolved questions.
now he wants to Bring Flashpoint Martha Wayne back to life. JUST AWFUL.

we get some of the usual Tom King'iest of Tom King'y tropes-
-SLOWWWWWWWW pacing
-heavy decompression
-issue padded with something that wasn't really written by King (this time a song)
-spinal damage fixed easy peasy
-Bruce made to look like a weak idiot
-obligatory comical punch to the face of a Bat-family member
-3D computer models being traced and passed off as art

"The Fall and the Fallen" part four! Batman has been defeated by Bane's minions and chased out of Gotham. As a last-ditch effort to save his son from the lonely fate of being Batman, his father from another universe, Thomas Wayne, a.k.a. the Flashpoint Batman, is taking Bruce to the far ends of the Earth to try to give him the one thing that will c...

i just can't believe he still hasn't said how or why Flashpoint Batman is there. and why he'd be helping Bane. it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. . . . the only silver lining about it being canon is that even canon can be retconned. look how Tomasi fixed the issue with there being two different Supermans (New52 and Pre-New52) he just merged them. a skilled writer can fix the damage done, even when it's a giant nitwit like Tom King.

Agreed. Maybe he doesn’t know himself or he relies on Doomsday Clock. A good writer would have given us an entire issue about Thomas. That would have given us the chance to sympathize with him more& understand his motivations. Thomas comes off as a real two dimensional character.

most definitely. i truly believe that Tom King had no real plan when he started this run. he's just been pulling things out of his ass, and hoping that it'd all come together. this is painfully apparent with Flashpoint Batman. no logic. no motivations. no character development. just throw S*** at the walls and see what sticks. ...73 issues in, and nothing is adding up. he just keeps digging the hole deeper and deeper.

As for things not making sense because they haven't been explained yet, well, they don't make sense because they haven't been explained yet. That's not uncommon in any storytelling medium. This is one of the biggest problems I have with single issue reviews. They fault an issue for not answering every question that may be answered in a future issue. Whether you like the explanation is up to you but I think it's unfair to judge a single issue for not being every issue.

@Darkseid24: "a good writer would have given us an entire issue about Thomas." Not knowing King's plans how do you know he won't do just that? It seems clear to me we're not meant to know whether to trust Thomas or not. Given that it would be out of place to make us sympathize with him right now.

@ Batman Jones. Right, but it’s #73& nothing makes any sense. All we got was fillers& the only bad Scarecrow story I’ve ever read, so I’m not really willing to give King any chance. And in every book he writes people say „wait“& it never makes much sense in the end. Happened with HIC& with Mr. Miracle as well. Well I won’t

i can't see why Flashpoint Batman would want to resurrect an alternate universe version of his wife. after all, that was the woman he loved. back before she became a psychopath and started wholesale murder. so (main universe) Batman will have both his parents alive from an alternate universe. both of them murderers. a big happy family reunion. sounds just like one of those family dinners from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Yeah, non of this makes any sense. If it’s not Flashpoint Martha, which I doubt it is, it makes even less sense because he has no connection with this worlds Martha. Different damn dimension. This was terrible. Again. I feel the wait and see approach in a 6 to 12 issue series, but by 73 issues at $3 to $4 a piece? No. That’s ridiculous.

the idea of both Thomas and Martha Wayne coming back to life was actually done before in Blackest Night. it's been a long time since i got rid of those comic issues. but i'm pretty sure they were resurrected by the Black Lanterns. it was a neat story, but nothing i needed to ever read again.

I really don't understand how this book keeps getting such glowing reviews from critics. But then again it's basically the same old stooges who have time and time again done nothing but praise Snyder like he's the second coming of Moore, so I shouldn't be surprised.

True happiness begins in the heart. Our memories and emotions can play tricks on us, though, and divert one's reality into something completely different. The Batman Who Laughs has based his entire worldview on this very concept, and it is in this moment that he must finally confront the one man who stands in his way, the one man who could complete...

Good issue. I like the Gordon& James Jr. dynamic& I keep wondering, if James really betrays him once again. Or maybe he even gets killed off.
As for Bruce he’s acting quite crazy, but I still think he has a plan, so I’ll wait until the final issue.

However there are 2 things I didn’t like:

When Bruce said: ,,The thing is science doesn’t know a lot about laughter. It’s nature“. Then he is mentioning, what anthropology is saying about laughter& that makes me wonder. Bruce hopefully does realize, that anthropology, the humanities, jurisprudence etc. are all sciences, not just natural science? I find this to be a very unscientific view Bruce is showing here. Could be Joker‘s influence though.

Then as much as I like this mini series, but if I compare the way New52/ Rebirth currently is with Pre52 the Batman with his no killing rule we all know has become the exception, not the norm. Pre52 Bruce only turned murderer in a few Elseworlds or on other earths, but in New52/ Rebirth he is doing that on different earths& in the entire dark multiverse. This story turns Batman darker than he might be. Proving that Batman really is no better than the villains he’s fighting, since under the right circumstances he also turns psycho.

True happiness begins in the heart. Our memories and emotions can play tricks on us, though, and divert one's reality into something completely different. The Batman Who Laughs has based his entire worldview on this very concept, and it is in this moment that he must finally confront the one man who stands in his way, the one man who could complete...

The much-talked-about and always-topical take on the Wonder Twins continues from irreverent and witty writer Mark Russell and artist Stephen Byrne, who captures both the humor and the heart of the siblings, exiled to Earth and interning for the Justice League. A battle royal between minor-league heroes and villains ends in tragedy and a horrifying ...

"The Fall and the Fallen" part three! Is this the end of Gotham City? Bane's army of villains is taking over the city, and Batman's back is against the wall. With all the things Bane has done to him over the last year-from breaking up his wedding to trying to assassinate Nightwing, and then invading Batman's mind to expose his most terrible fears-c...

The most-talked-about miniseries of the year reaches its stunning finale! The mystery behind the murders at Sanctuary is solved, but the mind behind it is one the heroes never expected. With their deepest secrets exposed, the Trinity has to consider how to carry on. Should the tragedy cause them to redouble their efforts to help their hurting comra...

The most-talked-about miniseries of the year reaches its stunning finale! The mystery behind the murders at Sanctuary is solved, but the mind behind it is one the heroes never expected. With their deepest secrets exposed, the Trinity has to consider how to carry on. Should the tragedy cause them to redouble their efforts to help their hurting comra...